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Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia is a research and design monograph that explores the latent and transformative impact autonomous vehicles will have on the urban and spatial future of cities. Grounded in a discussion of our recent urban transportation history, the book speculates on a driverless mobility paradigm shift through multi-scalar design typologies and transportation policies, visioned through the unique format of an architectural graphic novel. Size: 7” X 10” Portrait Pages: 480pp, Book 1: 376pp, Book 2: 104pp Binding: Softbound, 2-Volume Set in a Slipcase Publication Date: Fall 2024 ISBN: 978-1-957183-63-3 Rights World: Available LOOK INSIDE BOOK 1 BOOK 2
"Autonomous vehicles offer a major opportunity to rethink the design and evolution of our city's built environments, with important implications on urban life and mobility since automobiles replaced horse-powered travel and changed the design of cities in the prior century."
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are appearing on our roads, representing the next technological disruption to our mobility systems. While their long-term spatial implications remain largely underestimated, this book argues that AVs offer a major opportunity to rethink our city’s built environments –with profound implications on urban life since automobiles replaced horse-powered travel and changed the design of cities in the prior century. However, driverless vehicles also risk reinforcing many of the negative effects of auto-based urbanism including urban sprawl, single-function infrastructure, congestion, and environmental degradation. Instead, this book proposes a driverless mobility paradigm shift that moves cities away from automobile dependency towards automated mass transit and mobility as a service –using the city of Los Angeles as a testbed.
In this two-volume set, one book depicts the narrative experience of this future city through the format of an architectural graphic novel. The other lays the framework for that speculative future, grounding it in urban mobility history, transportation policies, and multi-scalar spatial typologies. By envisioning this future guided by design and policy actions, this book contends that cities can transition from the Autopias of today, to the Transitopias of tomorrow. This is a big shift. Are cities and their inhabitants ready?
Evan Shieh is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and educator. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) where he teaches as a full-time faculty member, and is also the director of Emergent Studio, a design and research office operating at architecture’s intersection with urbanism, landscape, and infrastructure. He has practiced architecture and urban design professionally for over a decade in both the private and public sectors, and has also previously taught at a variety of other academic institutions including at the University of Virginia (UVA), Parsons School of Design, and the City College of New York (CCNY).
Shieh’s interdisciplinary research investigates the urban and environmental crises that our mono-functional infrastructures and technologies are implicated in, with a particular focus on the spatial impact of mobility infrastructure and new mobility technologies on design, planning, and other key aspects of the built environment. His research and design work has been curated and exhibited at venues around the world, including at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, and the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.
Shieh was trained as an architect and urban designer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) from which he holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design, and at the University of Southern California (USC) from which he received a Bachelor of Architecture. He lives, works, practices, and teaches in New York City, alongside his wife and their two dogs.
Size: 7” X 10” Portrait Pages: 480pp, Book 1: 376pp, Book 2: 104pp Binding: Softbound, 2-Volume Set in a Slipcase Publication Date: Fall 2024 ISBN: 978-1-957183-63-3 Rights World: Available
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